Meet our Residents

Recruited from all over the world, Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine residents train alongside high-functioning residents in other specialties to foster both personal and professional collegiality. This approach prepares residents for careers in a field where the interface with all specialties is of great importance. Each year, residents have progressively increased responsibility in the Emergency Departments.

Residents graduate with the ability to practice independently in any demanding Emergency Department in the country. Approximately 30 percent of our graduates stay in academics and have an excellent track record of obtaining the faculty position or fellowship of their choice. The majority of our residents enter community-based practices and are recruited nationally. As the only training program in Atlanta proper, Emory University Emergency Medicine residents have the advantage in the local market.

Emory Emergency Medicine Residency can boast about so many different areas of differentiation. Some key areas where Emory's program stands out include:

1. Our people and our diversity. We are a diverse EM residency program with residents and faculty members for all walks of life. We know that our diversity is a strength, and we truly value it.  
2. Our patients. We are proud and honored to be the emergency medicine physicians for a large and vulnerable population.  
3. Our clinical sites. Our training takes place at the county, academic, and community hospitals. Our “home base” is Grady Memorial Hospital - a historical county hospital that is a level 1 trauma center and the stroke referral center in the Southeast. We also work at Emory University Main Hospital, which is a quaternary referral site, Emory Midtown which is a community site and also the two Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Hospitals for our pediatric rotations. A combination of all of these sites and the faculty that comes with them prepare for all different clinical settings. 
4. Academics. We have a strong research program that spans cutting edge sepsis and stroke research, to violence prevention and gun violence research to social determinants of health research of health.  
5. Atlanta. Sunny, walkable, excellent food and drink, great hiking, and amazing BBQ.